"Caitlin baby give daddy a break will ya?""Dada, da, da.""I'm gonna da, da, da you in a minute get over here."My little princess is nine months going on fifteen. She can't really talk yet but her first word was dada then came mama. I won that fight. She started crawling at six or seven months and all hell broke loose from then on. She gets into everything so I have to watch her every minute that I'm alone with her or I'm afraid she'd hurt herself. Her mother is a little more lax than I when it comes to parenting. She says 'oh she's supposed to do that or don't worry Colt that's normal'. I didn't take shit for granted. In the first three months after I'd started putting her in her crib at night I stood over her to make sure she was breathing right and shit before I went to bed. I spent almost every waking hour worrying about one thing or the other. Anything that could go wrong I tried to head off at the pass. Now realistically I know there are no guarantees in life but I cou
The doorbell rang and I could hear the ruckus going on outside before I reached it. Shit, just what I needed to make my day better. Dad, Drake and Cy were standing there fighting to see who would get inside first. The three of them were a sad sight. Ever since my kid was born there's been a running competition between them as to who was her favorite grandpa. Cyrus had claimed his place as honorary grandpa and he wasn't letting go for nothing. I usually just ignored their dumbasses. Now here they were loaded down with bags. I didn't want to say anything but they were almost as bad as Elena and Tina. Those two were always showing up here with shit."Can I help you?""Hand over the kid and no one gets hurt boy." Dad held out his arms with a big stupid grin on his face. At least he didn't look high he knew the rules.Caitlin was going crazy in my arms her arms and legs going a mile a minute. Her three favorite old guys were here. Her variation of grandpa that sounded more like grap
Women are strange fuckers; that's all I'm saying. She came running into the house like a bat out of hell after hours of shopping, with not one bag in her hand. I started to ask her what the fuck they'd done all day until I got a look at her face. Terror! What the fuck? I automatically went into fight mode until her next words stopped me cold."Colt I think I killed someone.""What the fuck?" I grabbed her to me because she started shaking like a leaf."Baby calm down what the hell happened?"All she did was point back out the door. I passed her the baby who'd woken up less than ten minutes after I put her in her crib and went outside with my heart in my throat. What the fuck did she mean killed someone? My mind was already in clean up mode.Fuck me there was a body under the front wheel of her car. I walked over and knelt down not quite grasping what I was looking at. It was a female that much was obvious from the clothing and the hair. I didn't see any blood but she wasn't movi
"I'll get her." I rolled out of bed and went to get my little princess the next morning. She was making enough racket to raise the damn dead, just like her mother."Hey, hey, hey I'm here, what's with you this morning huh? Did you think daddy left you, huh? Come here beautiful girl." I picked her up out of her crib and laid her on the changing table. She was giving me the stink eye I guess I'd taken too long."Listen you your old man got here in plenty of time so don't you be giving me looks." She giggled when I tickled her belly and started pumping her legs and cooing da, da, at me. Damn if the crew ever knew how teary eyed I got every time my little girl does that I'd never hear the end of it. After I got her all squared away I took her into her lazy ass mother who was still lolling around on the bed. When she sat up to get her breast ready for the feeding I was right there front and center, this was one of my favorite parts of the day the best way to start shit off. My greedy pi
I went out back to my crew because I knew they'd probably be of more help than the cops who I don't trust for shit, not with my wife's life. The boys were hard at work trying to knock shit out before the holidays. There were ten new shiny bikes lined off against the wall waiting for delivery. Since the business had grown so much in such a short period of time I'd had to hire some more help, which in my book was a good thing. Five more men had money in their pockets to take care of their families it's all good."You guys find out anything about that chick from last night yet?""Nope no word on the street about anyone missing and we checked the whole area.""I made some calls to the next town over and there's nothing there either. You guys been checking the news? If she's missing it might be broadcasted." Jared was with me on this I'd told him my suspicions about the whole thing and he wasn't any more jazzed about the situation than I was."Nah I didn't think of that." Maybe becaus
At the hospital I had to jump through hoops to get into her room. The fact that they'd been the ones to call my house with this shit didn't seem to matter. I had to use the pothead's name to get pass the dragon at the desk, she was going on my shit list too. In the room I don't know what I was expecting to find. I had built this person up in my head as some sort of monster, but in the bed all I saw was a young woman who looked harmless enough. She didn't look like she was out to harm anyone and the empty look she turned my way didn't give me anything. Too bad for her whoever she was that my gut was sending off warning bells like a son of a bitch. I put on my 'I give a fuck face' and went farther into the room. Please don't let me strangle this woman in this bed. That's my natural reaction to any danger I sense where my wife is concerned."Hello there I'm Colt, they tell me that you don't remember anything?""Are you my husband?""Fuum no. No, my wife supposedly ran you over on m
I called Drake as soon as I got back in my truck after placing the can in the Ziploc bag I had hidden in my pocket; I came prepared."Drake I've got that chick's fingerprints on a can. Can you do something with it so we can find out who the hell she is?" "How the hell did you do that? Never mind I don't want to know. I'm at your parents, come on over.""What are you doing there, don't you work?""Off-day and Tina is over here doing something or the other with your mom. We didn't tell them about last night though so don't say anything."Shit, I really didn't want to deal with Daniel and his shit. When I got to the house, the three men were in their usual spot, gambling as usual. Dad had his pipe going, as was to be expected, and the place smelt like nothing but weed."Can't you arrest him or something?""It's out of my hands now son, they made it legal.""Dad put that shit out, how can you concentrate on anything when you're always high?""Weed doesn't make you high boy, it ma
Caitlin's fever was all the way down by the time I got back to the house but she was still a little fussy. I put everything else aside and focused on my wife and kid."How is she?" I picked my girl up out of her playpen for a hug."Hey baby how's daddy's big girl?" She laid her little head on my shoulder and hugged. Best fucking feeling in the world I don't care if it makes me a sap."Better, her fever is down and she's not as fussy; how did it go at the hospital any change? Does she remember anything?""Nope, your girls are on it though." I gave her a look for being sneaky but she didn't even have the decency to look embarrassed.She seemed happy enough with the fact that her posse was going to see about the victim though so that was one less worry for me; until she found something else to harass my ass about."I'm making fettuccini and chicken Alfredo for dinner sounds good?" "Sounds great, I'll help you." She was busy sitting on the floor wrapping gifts. She looked relaxed a